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Latest: Chelsea made €30m bid for defender in January that few knew about

Originally posted on Chelsea News | By Will Faulks | Last updated Mar 24, 2026 1:44 PM ET

Tylel Tati is a rising star in France, and apparently Chelsea already made a swing to sign him back in January.

The NXGN top 50 youngsters in the world list is out, and it has some interesting stuff in there.

In the entry for Tylel Tati, the teenage defender starting for Nantes regularly, it notes that the youngster “was the subject of a €30m bid from Chelsea late in the January transfer window, so urgent were the Blues to bring one of Europe’s most talented young centre-backs to Stamford Bridge.”

Chelsea bid €30m for teenage Ligue 1 defender after Jacquet deal failed

We covered the rumour on the 1st of February, but there wasn’t a huge amount of chatter about it. It didn’t make it to Fabrizio Romano’s timeline, put it that way.

There was so much talk about our interest in Jeremy Jacquet (who eventually agreed a move to Liverpool) that the Tati bid was largely forgotten. Presumably it came after the Jacquet move was confirmed but before we decided to bring back Mamadou Sarr.

We wonder if we’ll be back for him in the summer? It looks like the competition will be a lot hotter then.

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